Shackleton’s Way: leadership Lessons from the great antarctic explorer by margot morrell and stephanie capparell

This is one of the first “leadership books” that I remember reading. I was a couple of years into my promotion to Captain, and I picked this up in a used book store solely based on my affinity for Shackleton and his incredible story (detailed in Alfred Lansing’s Endurance which is also on my list of recommended reading.) As a matter of fact, don’t go anywhere near this book without first reading Endurance.

I recently re-read this book, and it holds up. I don’t know how much of it should be credited with building some of the tenets of what I consider good leadership, but I can definitely see where I might have picked up some important lessons when I read this back in 2006. And this most recent reading also revealed something that Shackleton did for his men that I need to do a better job of.

Recommended for Officers (and maybe especially new officers)